Music Rebels Seek to Tame P2P
After years of bitter battles between copyright holders and file-swapping services, the outlines of a partial truce are emerging that may soon see major record labels partner with peer-to-peer networks to create legal online music stores.
At the center of the detente is Napster creator Shawn Fanning, whose new company, Snocap, has spent the last year [...]
Anti-Copyright Bill Groups Unite to Fight Against the Entertainment Industry
WASHINGTON (Hollywood Reporter) – The entertainment industry’s attempt to get Congress to approve a wide-ranging copyright law when it returns Tuesday for the lame-duck session has become a lot harder with groups opposed to the legislation uniting to win its defeat.
Opponents of the legislation, from consumer electronics makers to fair-use advocates, contend that the [...]
Yahoo Doubles Free E-Mail Storage Limits
SUNNYVALE, Calif. (AP) – Yahoo Inc. is more than doubling its limits on free e-mail storage in its latest move to combat two of its biggest rivals, Google Inc. and Microsoft Corp. E-mail accountholders will get up to 250 megabytes of free storage effective Monday, up from 100 megabytes previously offered by Sunnyvale-based Yahoo. The [...]
Row brewing over peer-to-peer ads
Music download networks are proving popular not just with an audience of youngsters keen to take advantage of free music but with advertisers equally keen to reach out to a captive audience. The debate over the legitimacy of file-sharing networks rages on as the music industry continues its threats to close the services down for [...]
Microsoft uses warez
PC Welt, the German computer magazine, claims that Microsoft has shipped its popular Windows Media Player with sound files that are edited with an illegal copy of SoundForge, a commercially available Sony program for manipulating audio.
In one of the WAV files PC Welt discovered a reference to SoundForge 4.5 and a user called ‘Deepz0ne’, who [...]
eMule 0.44d
eMule 0.44c is released now, offering new and exciting features like:
Advanced Intelligent Corruption Handling (AICH) has been even more improved with automatically detecting clients which sent corrupt data and eventually banning them.
NTFS sparse files for more efficient use of free disk space for long time downloads of rare big files.
The GUI has been further improved. [...]
Ultramagnetic Vers. 0.85
Ultramagnetic Vers. 0.85
A description of the Ultramagnetic project: Ultramagnetic adds encryption technology to AOL Instant Messenger and all the other Messengers like GAIM. This means that no one can spy on you while you’re talking about your secret crush, how horrible your new boss is, that embarrassing brush with an STD, your developing political [...]
Movie industry to file copyright suits
The Motion Picture Association of America announced last week that it would begin filing copyright infringement lawsuits against illegal movie downloaders starting Nov. 16.
With a tentative number of 250 suits to be filed across the nation, the MPAA is following in the footsteps of the Recording Industry Association of America, which has filed lawsuits [...]
P2P: Where Do You Want To Get Sued Today?
I woke up this morning and took a look around to see where things stand on P2P. Vietnam is going crack down harder on piracy, France affirms downloading is legal, RIAA is rebuffed by the Supreme Court and Dutch experts concluded that current IP laws don�t work. P2P: Where Do You Want To Get Sued [...]
Cabos 0.1.5 nightly build
Cabos is Gnutella file sharing program based on LimeWire / Acquisition. It is freesoftware, no spyware. It has simple interface, multilanguage support, and filename translator. Cabos requires Mac OS X 10.2.8 or lator, Windows 2000 or lator, Java 1.4.1 or lator.
http://cabos.sourceforge.jp/
